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This Aug. 6, 1945, picture made available by the U.S. Army via the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum shows a mushroom cloud billowing into the sky above Hiroshima, Japan, about one hour after the atomic bomb was detonated.

A photo dated Aug. 15, 1945, of an A-bomb victim with severe burns. The black colored designs of the women's kimono absorbed and radiated intense heat from the atomic blast, leaving burn marks on the victim's back.

Severely burned victim of A-bomb photographed by Masami Onuka on Aug. 7, 1945, one day after the bombing of Hiroshima. Many of the survivors were transported to emergency evacuation centers on an island located 4 kilometers from the city.

65th anniversary of atomic bomb

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 140,000 people. Three days later, another A-bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing more than 73,000 people. We offer this historic gallery of images of those events as a sobering reminder of the devastation and destruction that happened 65 years ago.